Software Update: SOGo 5.6.0

Version 5.6.0 of SOGo was released recently. Scalable OpenGroupware.org uses the source code of OpenGroupware.org and focuses on sharing calendars, contacts and emails. In addition, according to the developers, it is highly scalable and can be accessed via a web interface. Furthermore, modified versions of Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning are included as clients. Other clients can also be used, such as Microsoft Outlook, or mobile devices such as a BlackBerry. For more information, please refer to this page, where the documentation can be found. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

New Features

• calendar: optionally remove attendees that can’t be invited (048858b† 4e5c865†
• calendar: search for past events and tasks (2f725a3), close #5441
• mail(web): forward multiple messages as attachments (c476503), close #33
• mail(web): Templates folder for predefined drafts (21dc73d† c986422), close #4320 #5363
• mail: always forward incoming messages, before all filters (8ed4fc8†

Bug Fixes

• acls: fix SQL conversion for LIKE operator to find groups (3140a9d), close #5492
• addressbook(dav): add support for mail property in addressbook-query (8409c3c), close #5489
• addressbook(dav): improve handling of addressbook query (1545bcd† 7faab91†
• addressbook(js): unselect current card on delete (547d26a†
• addressbook(web): update card on save when certificate is removed (c7ee4d8†
• addressbook: allow search on name fields in personal addressbooks (700d726†
• addressbook: close DB connection after LDIF import (a5b85d7), close #5507
• addressbook: handle LDIF file with a single contact when importing (969cfd3†
• addressbook: keep folders order in matching contacts (ec7199e†
• addressbook: preload cards when creating list from selection (44afac0†
• calendar(dav): prevent duplicates in PUT (c348ca2† e417c0b†
• calendar(js): adjust line of the current time to user’s timezone (1b3b9c2), close #5512
• calendar: fix yearly recurrence calculator with a finite rule (8fccd23), close #5506
• calendar: rely on organizer’s event state before updating attendee (fbd2eb8), close #5496
• calendar: send modification notifications for tasks (8a3cb76†
• calendar: set missing RSVP parameter to TRUE for attendees (2676aa9†
• calendar: update calendar of all attendees when active user is not owner (dae6d6d†
• calendar: update quick table when removing all categories of task (3f93e6e†
• core: encode reserved HTML characters in RTF parser (6d50dee), close #5388
• core: improve escaping of double-quotes (a5d18bf), close #5351
• dav: use utf-8 as charset name instead of utf8 (b37e68b), close #5495
• eas: improve error logging (a0f6842†
• imap: use proxy authentication to detect IMAP delimiter (a98b404), close #5479
• mail(js): expect the recipient to become a string when saving a message (b252aeb†
• mail(js): handle new message from template in popup window (6c42086†
• mail(js): improve scrolling of list when moving with arrows keys (b198c84†
• mail(js): improve signature replacement when switching identities (d90e29e†
• mail(js): map the NSLocale to the proper CKEditor locale (7c0592e†
• mail(js): parse all parameters of mailto: link (fa598e8), close #5478
• mail(js): perform a full fetch when in unseen/flagged mode (c8ce3f1†
• mail(js): show the recipient when in the Drafts mailbox (10076be†
• mail(js): use different email separator keys depending on locale (c2eed78), close #3513 #4042 #5308 #5309
• mail(web): display emails extracted from smime certificate (96d00b7), close #5440
• mail: add subject and date to file names of exported messages (f32c3d7†
• mail: avoid exception when accessing signed/encrypted body parts (c6a41d3†
• mail: case insensitive check of sender address with certificate (31da2d9†
• mail: check return value of “setacl” IMAP command (55baeb1†
• mail: don’t add signature unless a default identity is forced (d63fd6c†
• mail: ensure is at the end of the document prior parsing (a09cf58), close #5477
• mail: fix type of SOGoMailComposeFontSize defaults (3847b57†
• mail: force TNEF body parts to be decoded in UTF-8 (2cf77b6†
• mail: identify junk mailbox in lookup (557ff59† 63ad7aa† fe038bb), close #5482
• mail: improve error logging when encrypting/decrypting a msg (4b95641†
• mail: improve error logging when signing a message (53354c5†
• mail: mark deleted messages as seen (090c1ea†
• mail: remove signature prior to sign the message (bd5a5e3†
• preferences(js): don’t check Sieve capabilities if Mail module disabled (80b0d99†
• preferences(js): don’t check Sieve script if Mail module disabled (a1d74a8†
• preferences: don’t save Sieve script if Mail module disabled (401a800† d097193†
• preferences: fix compilation warning (a74cf05† 1e52e18†
• web(js): show toast when fetching a folder ACLs fails (87b1c8e†
• web: support passwords up to 2048 characters (a965f27), close #5485
• web: update parameters of meta tag for robots (b35a10a), close #4930

Enhancements

• mail: perform IMAP STATUS command to fetch unseen msgs count (0e20bbc†

Localization

• bg: update Bulgarian translation (59eda2f† 02b0a41†
• de: update German translation (6eaa362† 2c76f17† f69fe5b b1a6487†
• fr: update French translation (0211153† dcc2ebc† 1b408a6†
• hu: update Hungarian translation (5cd0062† 1509090†
• pl: update Polish translation (4657f56† b243887†
• pt_BR: update Brazilian Portuguese translation (30ab725†
• sl_SI: update Slovenian translation (32e0479†

see the closed tickets for this release and the complete change log†